Emily Spivack writes to let us know about Worn Stories, a website where she’s publishing stories about clothing and memory. She explains: “Every item of clothing we wear has a story behind it — perhaps it was passed on to … Continue reading
Sounds like things went pretty well at our debut live event out in San Francisco, at least if our friends and contacts are to be believed: “It was fantastic! Loved it. Huge crowd, super fun.” “Not sure how to explain … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Jason Grote, J. Robert Lennon, Helen DeWitt, Greg Rowland, Ed Park. *** This is the ninth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in … Continue reading
Big thanks to all who came out to our Litquake / Lit Crawl event at Root Division! Thanks also to all our participating writers, and supsersize thanks to Rob Baedeker for hosting duties, and for wearing a super-suede suit! We’ll … Continue reading
Let me say it again with the right hashtag: Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #LitCrawl # Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #litquake # "4" Angel + Story by … Continue reading
You must attend the first-ever S.O. live event! Reading live (in alphabetical order): Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Beth Lisick, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Williams. Followed by the first-ever Object slam, your chance to invent Significance for an object to be … Continue reading
That’s right, readers. Starting in a matter of hours we’ll publishing one all-new Significant Objects story each day this week, all leading up to the first-ever S.O. live event, in San Francisco. Please alert your friends! Our contributors this time … Continue reading
NYC folks: Go to the release event for @jimhanas collection “Why They Cried.” http://bit.ly/a60jvy Sounds fun! # Very large book cover archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/ # New Republic looking for “literary intern.” http://bit.ly/cDFWzT # Books added to our “store” all the time. … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Lethem, Joe Lyons, Jim Shepard, Jennifer Michael Hecht. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: … Continue reading
Lyall Watson was a South African-born botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, zoo keeper and BBC presenter who wrote Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural (1973), among other popular books that helped usher in the Seventies’ New Age trend. Among other … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Margaret Wertheim, Lydia Millet, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Luc Sante, Kevin Brockmeier. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An … Continue reading
The first-ever Significant Objects live event, part of Litquake in San Francisco, will of course include fantastic all-new stories, read live by five of our esteemed contributors, breathing fresh Significance into a new batch of objects hand-picked by this project’s … Continue reading
“Bookshelf” wallpaper. http://tumblr.com/xr4jpdjmr # Fun interview by Paola Antonelli w/ S.O. co-founder Rob Walker includes nice mention our project, plus a bunny picture. http://bit.ly/a9Tlbl # iPad app based on typewriter. http://bit.ly/dDi2ct # “The strange afterlife of authors’ book collections,” Boston … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Matthew Sharpe, Matthew J. Wells, Matt Brown, Mark Jude Poirier, Mark Frauenfelder. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Neil LaBute, Myla Goldberg, Miranda Mellis, Mimi Lipson, Meg Cabot. DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about … Continue reading
Michael Zelehoski’s solo exhibition, Objecthood, at the Christina Ray gallery, “brings actual, quotidian objects into the realm of art. Zelehoski works almost exclusively with everyday objects, but by giving them autonomy and internal coherence, he is able to reveal their … Continue reading
DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie … Continue reading
